Here Are The 100 Most Innovative Universities In The World, 2018

Prof. Dr. Amarendra Bhushan DhirajOctober 11, 2018October 19, 2018CEO Agenda

Located in Palo Alto, California, Stanford Stanford has been named the most innovative universities in the world, according to Reuters’ fourth-annual ranking of the 100 most innovative colleges. It is Stanford’s fourth year running on the most-innovative list. Stanford filed 691 patents between 2011 and 2016. 41.5% of those were subsequently granted.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge ranked No. 2 on the list – filed 1,480 patents between 2011 and 2016. 45% were subsequently granted. Notable alumni include Charles Koch, the co-owner of Koch Industries, and John Thain, chairman, and CEO of the CIT Group.

US universities continue to stand out as the most innovative in the world – 8 of the top ten on the newly released 2018 list— and 46 of the top 100 — are located in the US.

Six of the schools from last year’s top 10 are there again (the University of Minnesota System dropped from 8 to 27, Vanderbilt dropped from 10 to 11). The list identifies and ranks the educational institutions by comparing factors like the number of research papers published and how many patent filings a school made in the last year.

The 100 most innovative universities in the world, 2018:

Rank	University	Country
1	Stanford University	US
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	US
3	Harvard University	US
4	University of Pennsylvania	US
5	University of Washington	US
6	University of Texas System	US
7	KU Leuven	Belgium
8	Imperial College London	UK
9	University of North Carolina Chapel Hill	US
10	Vanderbilt University	US
11	Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST)	South Korea
12	Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL)	Switzerland
13	Pohang University of Science & Technology (POSTECH)	South Korea
14	University of California System	US
15	University of Southern California	US
16	Cornell University	US
17	Duke University	US
18	University of Cambridge	UK
19	Johns Hopkins University	US
20	University of Tokyo	Japan
21	California Institute of Technology	US
22	Osaka University	Japan
23	University of Michigan System	US
24	Northwestern University	US
25	University of Wisconsin System	US
26	Kyoto University	Japan
27	University of Minnesota System	US
28	University of Illinois System	US
29	Georgia Institute of Technology	US
30	University of Utah	US
31	University of Erlangen Nuremberg	Germany
32	Ohio State University	US
33	Columbia University	US
34	Seoul National University	South Korea
35	University of Toronto	Canada
36	Tohoku University	Japan
37	University of Pittsburgh	US
38	Yale University	US
39	Sungkyunkwan University	South Korea
40	University of Oxford	UK
41	University of Colorado System	US
42	Tufts University	US
43	Baylor College of Medicine	US
44	Tsinghua University	China
45	Technical University of Munich	Germany
46	Kyushu University	Japan
47	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan
48	University College London	UK
49	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	Switzerland
50	Purdue University System	US
51	University of Chicago	US
52	Oregon Health & Science University	US
53	University of Manchester	UK
54	Indiana University System	US
55	University of Montpellier	France
56	University of Munich	Germany
57	Technical University of Denmark	Denmark
58	Emory University	US
59	Peking University	China
60	Sorbonne University	France
61	University of British Columbia	Canada
62	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands
63	National University of Singapore	Singapore
64	Princeton University	US
65	University of Zurich	Switzerland
66	Hanyang University	South Korea
67	Case Western Reserve University	US
68	Yonsei University	South Korea
69	Rutgers State University New Brunswick	US
70	Boston University	US
71	University of Massachusetts System	US
72	Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz	Germany
73	Wake Forest University	US
74	Keio University	Japan
75	Korea University	South Korea
76	University of Florida	US
77	Leiden University	Netherlands
78	University of Paris Descartes - Paris 5	France
79	Hebrew University of Jeruslem	Israel
80	University of Cincinnati	US
81	University of Freiburg	Germany
82	Ruprecht Karl University Heidelberg	Germany
83	State University of New York System	US
84	University of Claude Bernard - Lyon 1	France
85	University of Virginia	US
86	Dresden University of Technology	Germany
87	University of Iowa	US
88	Ghent University	Belgium
89	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China
90	Hokkaido University	Japan
91	Tel Aviv University	Israel
92	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology	Germany
93	Zhejiang University	China
94	Fudan University	China
95	University of Miami	US
96	Arizona State University	US
97	University of Paris Sud - Paris 11	France
98	Gwangju Institute of Science & Technology	South Korea
99	Nagoya University	Japan
100	Free University of Berlin	Germany

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Prof. Dr. Amarendra Bhushan Dhiraj

Prof. Dr. Amarendra Bhushan Dhiraj is a publishing executive and economist who is the CEO and editor-in-chief of The CEOWORLD magazine, one of the world’s most influential and recognized global news publications. Additionally, he serves as the chair of the advisory board for the CEOWORLD magazine. He received his Ph.D. in Finance and Banking from the European Global School, Paris, France. He earned his Doctoral Degree in Chartered Accountancy from the European International University Paris, France, and a Doctorate in Business Administration from Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design (KNUTD), Ukraine. Dr. Amarendra also holds a Master of Business Administration degree in International Relations and Affairs from the American University of Athens, Alabama, United States.

Prof. Dr. Amarendra Bhushan Dhiraj is CEO and editor-in-chief of CEOWORLD magazine. You can follow him on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter.

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